Dr Sachin Kandari, Senior Neurosurgeon and Managing Director of IBS Hospital, said: 'Maintaining a healthy brain is essential to living a long life, so exercise regularly, eat a balanced diet, reduce smoking and alcohol consumption, reduce stress and anxiety levels, and maintain good social connections. With family and peer groups through social activity, getting at least 7-8 hours of good sleep.”
Another important aspect of a healthy human body is the control of medical risks. Dr. Varun Reddy Gundaloro, Consultant Neurologist at Yashoda Hospitals Hyderabad, added: “Maintaining good control of blood pressure, controlling blood sugar and cholesterol levels, reducing smoking and alcohol intake, Regular medical checkups also largely determine brain health."
Dr. Varun Reddy Gundaloro focused on mental fitness, so he suggests doing activities that stimulate the brain, such as solving puzzles, thinking about complex scenarios and harnessing the power of the brain, as mental fitness reduces the chances of developing dementia.
Activities such as continuous learning, playing and activating memory, practicing vocabulary, playing puzzles, and trying to stimulate the mind can help exercise the brain, as these activities require the individual to push his memory to memorize movements and notes, and this requires a certain level of commitment from the brain by presenting it to a challenge New, making it constantly keep the brain moving and alert.
*Common symptoms of brain complications that everyone should know
Frequent severe headaches.
Vision problems.
Unusual changes in behaviour, mood, memory and ability to concentrate.
Troubled or poor sleep.
Numbness or tingling in the arms, hands, legs, or feet.
On the other hand, doctors confirmed that getting enough sleep and relaxation rejuvenates and activates the brain the next day, maintains a good mood, reduces the chance of depression, and improves memory, as sleep is vital for the brain in several ways, One is how it helps establish communication between neurons.
Many health reports claim that sleep detoxifies the brain, because the space between brain cells expands significantly during sleep, making it easier to remove the sticky substance through the cerebrospinal fluid, and perhaps most surprisingly, much of this sticky substance is beta-amyloid protein. It is a precursor to plaques in Alzheimer's disease